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Test Drive Multivan Executive: Top For Top
This version of Multivan is designed for top managers. In such a salon, the level of comfort and freedom is associated for ordinary representation sedans. It is these qualities, and even manageability and reliability, we decided to test on domestic roads along the Golden Ring of Russia. I got acquainted with commercial vehicles at the highest level: Multivan Executive got into test-exhibits, worth 5 million 393 thousand 300 rubles. As it turned out, it is not a ceiling for Multivan Concern WV, there is still Multivan Business from 5 935 800 to 7 133 100 rubles, depending on the kit.
Externally ordinary minibus. That's just a black Magic pearl body painting, sliding automatic doors in the cabin on the right and on the left with a hidden central guide, dark tinting of the stalk salon, darkened rear lights, and a double exhaust pipe from a stainless steel and a brilliant chrome gives it to top-o'er destiny.
Inside everything is not more than modest. Leather beige salon with wooden walnut root inserts, rearseatentertainment: on the ceiling - an autonomous CD-DVD player on with a folding 10.2 inches monitor, for passengers - wide comfortable chairs, the thrones from Bentley.
The fact that the wagon is at six places, including the driver, is subject to a category of high capacity, it seemed strange in logic, in a minibus you can put much more chairs, but this is at first glance. Embedded in the cabin, immediately it became clear that to achieve impeccable comfort should not save space. Total, two rows of seats are two in each.
The most close attention deserves, of course, the second number of chairs. Even if you do not pay attention to the fact that Bentley engineers worked on them, which in itself gives to understand the level and quality, their design is very impressive. Two individual luxury seats on a shared frame move along rails, electric drives regulate each seat for 14 parameters, of course, there is a personal heating. Armrests on the left and right of each seat have built-in niches for storing objects, in addition, there are additional niches in the console and the tunnel between the seats and the cup holders. Well, apotheosis convenience - a compressor refrigerator in a tunnel between the rear seats by 8.5 liters - works autonomously, including when the engine is turned off.
The first row of the cabin chairs turned out to be less comfortable, but no less interesting to use. Obviously, it is designed to protect or managers rank down - it is clear in the top management of the subordination is clearly observed. These are two single, removable, folding, rotary seats with a built-in 3-point automatic safety belt. Armchairs on the longitudinal railway rails and are fixed anywhere. Interestingly, the cabin designers have provided the possibility of turning the chairs to any angle without dismantling. And even a girl can cope with this. Thus, the seats can be positioned both opposite each other, which is very convenient for conferences and in the course of the movement. Moreover, the backs of the chairs can be folded completely and comfortably stretch your legs, for example. Separate attention deserves a multifunction table in the center of the cabin. As happens everywhere there are many hidden boxes and tanks: four cup holders, ashtray, two outer and two inner shelves, built-in holders for bottles and retractable roomy box. The table moves, as well as the chair, along the longitudinal guide rails and is fixed anywhere. Moreover, by pressing a regular box, similar to a system unit, a folded tabletop is traveled on an iron rack, and the other movement of the turning table tops along the axis, it turns into a round comfortable table. It can be placed both individually near one of the four chairs and in the center for general use.
By the word about subordination, in Multivan Executive All amenities are created for the second-row passengers. Even the driver does not provide for no sizes - the driver's seat, like the front passenger, with a manual adjustment in height, lumbar backup, armrests and clothing pockets in the back all! It remains to enjoy only the improved leather upholstery of the seats with inserts from the Alcantara, the leather upholstery of the steering wheel and doors, a velor carpet and a transparent sliding / lifting hatch with an electric and curtain.
But true pleasure behind the wheel arises from the moment of Trokhan Multivan from the place Lightly pressing the 4-cylinder V-shaped engine 3.2 liter
and with a capacity of 234 horses at the seven seconds accelerates a three-year minibus to 80 km / h. The automatic 6-speed gearbox with the Tiptronic function and sports mode allows you to move with ease of sports coupe in the stream of cars, both in the city and on the highway. Particularly impressed the dynamics at high speeds: smoothly, calm, confidently and first-demand. Very responsible. Moreover, noise in the cabin and the driver's cabin is not felt even outside 150 km / h. Interestingly, the suspension was to become a top cargo - she swallowed even blurred and spoken yams of the ground road without tangible swinging. What to talk about the road surface in the city is not a road, but a mirror.
As for safety, except for pillows and inflatable blinds to the entire salon there is a trauma-safe steering column, head restraints for all chairs, three-point automatic belts with emergency tensioners for the driver and front passenger, blocking a random opening of the sliding door and an integrated ESP + stabilization system. The latter includes an electronic system for maintaining a coursework (ESP) with a revolution of the coup (ARP), anti-lock system (ABS) with compensation for the loss of brake efficiency as a result of heating, electronic differential lock (EDL) for all drive axes, anti-slip system (ASR ) And the engine braking control system (EBC), the electronic brake force distributor (EBD) with the rear axle damp mode, an emergency braking amplifier (EBA) with a preliminary shoe mode to the disk, a periodic drying of the disc during the rain. In general, for yourself and passengers, we were calm throughout a thousand kilometers of the way.
A considerable impression was left and fuel consumption, the average value of which at the end of the trip did not exceed 12, 3 liters per 100 km. Taking into account the route: Moscow - Sergiev Posad - Pereyaslavl-Zalessky - Rostov - Yaroslavl - Kostroma - Ivanovo - Suzdal - Vladimir - Pokrov - Moscow, the indicators above all praise.
And yet, the impressive economy, safety, handling, ease, comfort and other advantages of the Top-type configuration, should be remembered. Multivan base from 1 531 400, Multivan Executive from 4,416,600, this car is 5,393,300 rubles. Freedom freedom, comfort and good style.
The editors of the business autocluba thanks Russian representative office Volkswagen for the car provided and a comfortable journey.
A source: Business Autoclub
